[XviD-devel] R-D motion search

[Christoph Lampert]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Radek Czyz wrote:

> Heyhey :)
> 
> I finished turning "BITS" into "R-D". I works well - the more you
> search, the higher PSNR and lower filesize. There is no revolution in
> quality, but it's another tool that makes xvid better :)
> 
> Now, I have some important questions. This RD is not much slower than
> BITS, but performs better. We can:
> 1. make additional flag which will choose BITS <-> RD. It could be
>    useful (?), but it would make the code a real mess. New variables,
>    lots of branches all over the place...
> 2. Make it the only possiblity. "BITS" will mean R-D (kinda
>    misleading name, if you want to change flags in API it's ok with me
>    ;D )

Let's remove BITS and use RD instead, in code as well as in flags. 
I always found using BITS alone as a qzuality masure a little fishy. 
 
> So... what do we do? I'll try to port it all to dev-api-4 soon
> (once I compile it), but my current version is cvs-head (yes Gom,
> that's what I meant ;> ).

/me , too.
 
> Waiting your opinion :) ('cause if you won't say anything, I'll make RD
> the only possiblity and commit it to cvs head).

nmo prob.

gruel